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      Sometimes Dialogue is Not the Answer and Neutrality is a Trap: An Interview with the Authors of ‘The Neutrality Trap’
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      Breaking Up With Marilynne Robinson Over Her Refusal to Acknowledge the Dark Side of Puritanism
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      Racialization Meets Purity Culture: Abortion Criminalization Cases Confirm That It’s Always Been About Controlling Women’s Bodies And Protecting the ‘Ideal’ American Family
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    • Media Fail to Acknowledge That 2024 Hopeful Ron DeSantis is as Catholic as Biden
      Media Fail to Acknowledge That 2024 Hopeful Ron DeSantis is as Catholic as Biden
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      The Vile Attack on Salman Rushdie Reminds Us of the Value of a Free Society — But is Our Outrage More About the Criminal Than the Crime?
    • Sometimes Dialogue is Not the Answer and Neutrality is a Trap: An Interview with the Authors of ‘The Neutrality Trap’
      Sometimes Dialogue is Not the Answer and Neutrality is a Trap: An Interview with the Authors of ‘The Neutrality Trap’
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    • Media Fail to Acknowledge That 2024 Hopeful Ron DeSantis is as Catholic as Biden
      Media Fail to Acknowledge That 2024 Hopeful Ron DeSantis is as Catholic as Biden
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      Despite Vastly Different Values, Evangelical ‘Hamilton’ Connects Secular Left and Christian Right
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      What a Turn-of-the-Century Anti-Abortion and Contraception Crusader Reveals About GOP Efforts to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail
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    • Media Fail to Acknowledge That 2024 Hopeful Ron DeSantis is as Catholic as Biden
      Media Fail to Acknowledge That 2024 Hopeful Ron DeSantis is as Catholic as Biden
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      Crossing the Rubicon? Mar-a-Lago Raid Enflames Right Wing Fantasies of Christian Caesarism
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      The Right is Using the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Search to Martyr Trump and Maintain the Violent Myth of the Big Lie
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      Unprecedented Anti-LGBTQ Statement By Orthodox Church in America Should Be Christian Nationalist Warning Sign to US Orthodoxy
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      With This Largely Overlooked Shakeup is the Russian Orthodox Church Looking to Westernize? Yes and No
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      Moscow Suffers its Most High Profile Defection Yet

Shabana Mir

Author of Muslim American Women on Campus: Undergraduate Social Life and Identity, winner of the 2014 Critics’ Choice Award (American Educational Studies Association) and the Outstanding Book Award (National Association for Ethnic Studies), Shabana has taught Anthropology, Research Methods, and Education at Millikin University, Oklahoma State University, Indiana University, Eastern Illinois University, and the International Islamic University. She blogs at Koonj.

(A)theologies, Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderJune 10, 2009

Extremist Women Want In

By Shabana Mir

After a recent statement by Ayman al-Zawahiri on the role of women in Al-Qaeda, that supports single-dimensional notions of extremist Muslims, extremist women talk back…

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Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderMay 8, 2009

“Just Like a Submissive Woman”

By Shabana Mir

Women should not be excluded from the benefits of global sisterhood because of a shalwar kameez, or a business suit, or a kaffiyeh… Or because of Islam.

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Politics/LawMay 5, 2009

Driving While Pregnant

By Shabana Mir

A traffic court in Dubai declares a woman guilty of manslaughter after a traffic accident in which she loses her child. Why not go ahead and ban pregnancy?

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(A)theologies, Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderApril 27, 2009

Praying in Fear

By Shabana Mir

A peek into the vexing obstacles to Muslim prayer in American life.

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(A)theologies, Politics/LawApril 20, 2009

An Immigrant’s Tale: The Pull of the Homeland

By Shabana Mir

How ironic, we immigrants sigh to ourselves, that we can turn on the tap to clean water at whatever temperature we like, but we can’t put up a poster of the Holy Mosque in our cubicle.

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Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderApril 16, 2009

How Not to Rescue Muslim Women

By Shabana Mir

What to do when people start sounding like Samuel Huntington-meets-Edward Said…

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Sexuality/GenderApril 16, 2009

A Square Yard of Fabric Makes a Boring, Foreign SAHM*

By Shabana Mir

MediaCurves conducted a study to examine popular perceptions of women who wear hijab…

[*SAHM = Stay at Home Mom.]

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Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderApril 16, 2009

Sister Rose and a Teenager’s First Headscarf

By Shabana Mir

A Pakistani girl and a Nun square off over religious expression.

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Politics/LawApril 2, 2009

An Open Letter to Western Feminists

By Shabana Mir

Some progressive feminists oppose the hijacking of women’s rights to justify U.S. invasions while avoiding any mention about the plight of women in Palestine, Iraq, or Afghanistan.

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